# مجلس
## Arabic

* Root
* ج ل س (j l s)
* 8 terms

### Etymology

Noun of place from the verb جَلَسَ (jalasa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mad͡ʒ.lis/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

مَجْلِس • (majlis) m (plural مَجالِس (majālis))
* seat
    Synonym: مَقْعَد (maqʕad)
* place of meeting; seat of an assembling body; conference room; court; tribunal
* (figurative) session, sitting, meeting, party
* (figurative) council, college, collegium, board, committee, commission
* (Shia Islam) husainiya
    Synonyms: حُسَيْنِيَّة (ḥusayniyya), (dialectal) مَأْتَم (maʔtam)

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
* Maltese: miġles
* Moroccan Arabic: مجلس (majlis)
* → Armenian: մաջլիս (maǰlis)
* → Azerbaijani: məclis
* → Georgian: მეჯლისი (meǯlisi)
* → Malay: majlis
** Indonesian: majelis, madjelis (1901–1947, 1947–1972), majlis
* → Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
** Turkish: meclis
*** → English: mejlis
** → Macedonian: меџлис (medžlis)
** → Russian: меджли́с (medžlís), маджли́с (madžlís)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѐџлис
    Latin script: mèdžlis
* → Persian: مَجْلِس (majles)
** → Bengali: মজলিস (mojoliś)
** → English: majlis
*** → Finnish: majlis
** → Gujarati: મજલિસ (majlis)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मजलिस (majlis)
    Urdu: مَجْلِس (majlis)
** → Portuguese: majlis
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਜਲਸ (majlas)
    Shahmukhi script: مجلس (majlas)
* → Swahili: majilisi
* → Turkmen: mejlis
* → Uyghur: مەجلىس (mejlis)
* → Uzbek: majlis

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis, “seat; meeting, session”), noun of place from جَلَسَ (jalasa, “to sit”).

### Noun

مجلس • (meclis) (definite accusative مجلسی (meclisi), plural مجالس (mecâlis))
* seat, something to be sat upon, especially a place in which a person or a group of people can sit
    Synonym: اوتوراق (oturak)
* convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose
    Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), انجمن (encümen), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), درنك (dernek)
* council, board, a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions
* session, a period devoted to a particular activity, especially in reference to councils and courts
    Synonym: جلسه (celse)
* court of law, a court presided over by a judge who is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes
    Synonym: عدلیه (ʼadliye)

#### Derived terms

* صدر مجلس (sadr-ı meclis, “chief seat in an assembly”)
* مجلس آرا (meclis ara, “eloquent person”)
* مجلس اوطه‌سی (meclis odası, “council chamber”)
* مجلس اولمق (meclis olmak, “to be assembled in a meeting”)
* مجلس ایتمك (meclis etmek, “to hold a meeting”)
* مجلس خاص (meclis-i has, “cabinet council”)
* مجلس شرع (meclis-i şerʼ, “court of canon law”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: meclis
** → English: mejlis
* → Macedonian: меџлис (medžlis)
* → Russian: меджли́с (medžlís), маджли́с (madžlís)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѐџлис
    Latin script: mèdžlis

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meclis”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3100
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “meclis”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 710
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجلس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1123
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Consessus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 253
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مجلس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4405
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meclis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجلس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1750

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [mad͡ʒ.ˈlis]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäd͡ʒ.lɪ́s]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäd͡ʒ.lís]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæd͡ʒ.lés]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäd͡ʒ.lís]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | مجلس |
| Iranian Persian | مجلس |
| Tajik | маҷлис |
مَجْلِس • (majles) (plural مجالس)
* parliament
* assembly
* Majlis

#### Related terms

* مَجلِسِ شورایِ اِسْلامی (majles-e šurâ-ye eslâmi)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: মজলিস (mojoliś)
* → English: majlis
** → Finnish: majlis
* → Gujarati: મજલિસ (majlis)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मजलिस (majlis)
    Urdu: مَجْلِس (majlis)
* → Portuguese: majlis
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਜਲਸ (majlas)
    Shahmukhi script: مجلس (majlas)